On 1970 / 09 /23, Bill Graham assembled a stellar roster of bands to participate in the filming of a television special called “Welcome To The Fillmore East” for broadcast on educational channels. Short sets were filmed by the Byrds, the Elvin Bishop Group, Sha-Na-Na, Van Morrison, and the Allman Brothers Band, as well as behind-the-scenes footage of Bill Graham and the Fillmore East staff at work.
The Allman Brothers performance is nothing short of spectacular and features the original lineup that included Duane Allman and Berry Oakley. Recorded six months prior to the legendary Live At Fillmore East double album set, this performance captures the Allman Brothers when they were a relatively new band, full of youthful passion and performing what would become classic original material when it was fresh and new.

Be sure to click over and read the show more on that full set. What’s on your mind?

hey newton — be sure to click over when ya get time and watch that full segment. this was 6 months before the taping of THE shows at fillmore that became the double album. some good shit in there : how ya doing tonight?

Suzanne Bless ya!
I thought this had disappeared. Hard to believe I got to see all that, and got paid.
Allman Bros. were a trip. They were country boys, scared shitless of NYC. But they were THAT GOOD!

Hi Suzanne.
Just a driveby, I had to check out Duane and Berry before finally getting to my dishes.
The video quality is pretty typical for the era but the camera work and editing is very professional. Zappa said to make a decent live recording back then you had to be in NYC or LA, so not surprising the same was true of video.
Splendid evening to all.

LOforkingL! I had to call my cat-sitter to come and let me in. I gotta get a spare key, this is I think, the 3rd time lately. I have never done it before, but suddenly I am just having a hella hard time keeping track of myself.

The cat sitter told me a coyote has gone to the 2nd floor of her building looking for a meal, like the cats (hers) that sit in the open windows with just flimsy screens between them and the coyote.

The whole place is up in arms b/c someone called Animal Control, and they are setting traps. The tenants think there are pups where that coyote comes from, and they are worried about what happens to the coyote and the pups with Animal Control involved. Apparently AC is interested in “pets at risk” and that is their primary orientation. What a mess.

Ask what kind of traps they are using. Here they had a coyote downtown (Orlando) and set a trap but it was basically a big hammer. Any kid or pet could have been killed by it. The city didn’t want to “alarm” people by even acknowledging it was here but when I heard about how they wanted to kill it, I couldn’t believe it.

I know they are everywhere. And what they do to cats is not pretty. They “like” cats, a lot. If you want to know about their interest in cats, put “half cats” into teh google. I found one once, and I thought it was done by some kind of satanic cult, it was so clean.

My friend already went out to try to figure out about the traps. They are intending to feed the coyote and disarm the traps. I don’t think they have seen any traps yet.

She’s planning to reinforce the inside of her windows to protect the cats.

Be careful. It’s my understanding that coyotes are too smart for standard traps so they aren’t even used. Instead a trip wire is used to basically club them to death, which was my issue with it. Anything/one could have been killed by the trap.

The big-brained variety of mammal, for all our wonderfulness, has no problem shoving anything and everything farther and farther West until all that’s left is the swimming. Then we find ourselves surprised when a spurt in the numbers of indigenous species bites us on the ass.

I get that we don’t much like bears and wolves and mountain lions and coyotes eating our joggers, pets, and children…

Coyotes are roaming all over Cape Cod, if you can imagine! I’m surprised I haven’t seen them over on my coast. And I had to laugh about the idea of the big predators chasing us all into the sea…..could happen! And nipping at our heels as we dive in. And, damn, the Pacific is so cold!

Good and quiet and sunny on my coast. I like the quiet days. Hope you had some restful days and nights. We missed you but enjoyed CT’s good hosting. How are things with you? Did the kids pack up the right stuff?

i don’t know. sat jen and i are going out and i’m gonna take a look see of what’s still there. they took a buncha stuff from the house and put it directly into a storage unit so i haven’t seen what was packed.

Suzanne, I am thrilled to see this video. First time ever to see this classic series of live performances captured on video; the anthology albums Live at the Fillmore have long been considered amongst the top live performances made by any band any decade. The original albums lacked the full versions of Elizabeth Reed due to album space constraints, so when it was re-released on CD, for the first time we heard the extended (full) live performance.

I can tell this is a different night’s recording from the album/CD published one, and even with distorted images and lo-fi sound I just was swept away by this video version. For one thing, I had never noticed that there were 2 drum sets/drummers on stage — which was pretty cool. Another thing is just how unadorned those kinds of performances were back then. Real artists center stage playing real instruments, no gimmicks.

Galápagos is the story of a small band of mismatched humans who get shipwrecked on the fictional island of Santa Rosalia in the Galápagos Islands after a global financial crisis has crippled the world’s economy. Shortly thereafter, a disease renders all humans on Earth infertile, with the exception of the people on Santa Rosalia, making them the last specimens of humankind. Over the next million years, their descendants, the only fertile humans left on the planet, eventually evolve into a furry species resembling seals: though possibly still able to walk upright (it is not explicitly mentioned, but it is stated that they occasionally catch land animals), they have a snout with teeth adapted for catching fish, a streamlined skull and flipper-like hands with rudimentary fingers (described as “nubbins”).

So big happy Day today with ALEC walking away from their committee to push gun laws.

Right now I’m trying to think of stuff to help get the stand your ground laws repealed, block the laws they want with guns on campus and make it much harder to get a concealed carry permit.

Here is a video idea this is designed to educate people who don’t follow gun laws.
Did you know you can get a concealed carry permit by watching a one hour video?
Did you know that if you have a history of mental illness with violent tendancies you can get a CCW permit

I was appalled that I don’t even have to demonstrate I can safely handle a gun. And I can use this permit to carry in dozens of states.

Responsible gun owners don’t want jerks like me getting a permit, yet they never push for higher levels of training or blocking people who are Assholes from even doing a bare minium of training.

And I thought I was coming here for the political banter. God, that was great! Even though I fell in with punk, garage and Northern soul years ago, “Idlewild South” has remained one of my all-time favorite albums since high school, and just to see Duane and Berry (both dead by the time I got to middle school) — and to appreciate how tight that band was — brought me a lot of joy. And some what-if sadness, too.

Speaking of the dead: Someone actually created a FB meme Coachella poster for next year’s all-hologram lineup, and the Allmans are listed for Sunday’s show, which also includes Mozart, Marvin Gaye, The Beatles, Muddy Waters, Miles and Selena …

spocko, I wish you would write this up for myFDL….lots to be said about our crazy gun un-laws. I am, actually, amazed that abused wives have not taken advantage of Stand Your Ground in available states to blow their abusers away. That’s coming, I guess. I live in a sane state, but I no longer want to visit the crazy states. Write it up….. share the word.

She was here earlier. This is a tough time, but she’s a tough gal. And, wow, she’s getting the time down, day by day. I hope she’ll be doing some of her famous dives by mid-summer or so. Cruise back through the thread to get a sense of where she is right now.